The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-05


originated in the House and 3S3 in the Senate
Two hundred and sixtv-four of these became
laws by the expiration of the constitutional ten
days' limitation. Fifty bills failed to become
laws, owing to the adjournment of Congress,
nine Of them at the close of the first session.
There were 132 bills vetoed by the President, or
twenty-one more instances of the exercise OF the
presidential prerogatiye of veto than had oc
Cured from the foundation of the govern
ment down to the beginning OF this Congress.
Of the vetoed bills ninety four originated In the
House and thirty six in the Senate. But one
private bill, that granting pension to Joseph
Romser, and public bill, namely, that pro-
viding for the erection of government building
at Dayton. o., succeeded in passing both houses
over the Presidents veto, although several
others obtained the requisite two-thirds vote in
the Senate, only to fail in the House.
The death-roll of this Congress was also an
extraordinary ore, comprising the unprece-
den ted number of thirteen names in the House
and Senate. They those of Vice president
Hendricks, President of the Senate; Senators
Miller of California Pike of New Hampshire,
Logan of Illinois, and Representatives Hahn of
Louisiana. Arnot Beach and Dowdney of New
York. Price OF Wisconsin, Cole of Maryland, Ell
wood of Illinois, Duncan of Pennsylvania, and
Rankin Of Wisconsin.
But one election case was decided by the
House against the sitting member. and the Con-
gress was characterized by an absence of that
acrimonious discussion which such contests usu
ally awaken The Rhode Island case Of Page
VS.. Pierce, in which the House decided that
neither party was entitled to the seat, and a
new election was ordered, was the one instance
of seat being taken from the sitting member
OF the ]. 053 House bills which became laws
27o were of a more or less public nature; of the
remaining 778 bills-granting pensions relief
to specially designated persons-156 became
laws without the approval of the President
The following is list of the more important
House bills which have become laws:
To forfeit the Atlantic & Pacific railroad land
grant; to increase the pensions of widows
and dependent relatives from $s to. to $l2
official services to American vessels and to amend the
shipping laws tthe Dingley shipping bilD; to amend
the Thurman act lit requires the Pacific railroads to
pay the costs of surveying and conveying their land
grants. and subjects the lands to taxation
the companies entitled to them. notwithstanding
the fact that they may delay selection to increase
the naval establishment lit passed in the first
sion of the present Congress- and provides for the
construction of two arnored vessels of sixteen knots
speed cruiser of the highest practicable speed,
one tordedo boat and dynamite gun cruiser, and
for the completion of the monitors Puritan. Monad
Amphitrite and Terrorl; to pension the Mexican
war veterans to impose tax and regulate the manu-
facture sale importation and expectation of oleo
| margarine; to authorize the transfer of Hghwood
tract. Chicago to the United States for military
purposes; to protect homestead settlers within rail
road limits; to enable national banking associations
increase their capital stock and change their and
location; for the construction of con-
| gressional library buding to grant a
license to towing vessels to carry limited number of
passengers in addition their crews to forfeit the
| New Orleans, Baton Rouge a. Vcksburg railroad
tbackbone) land grant, to reduce the fees domestic
money orders for sums less than S.; to make allow
ance for clerk hire to postmasters of the first and
second classes to the cost of clerical Ii Dor in the
money order business to extend the immediate deiv
cry systems to prohibit the passage of local special
laws III the Territories to the judicial district
of Southern California; making appropriations for ad-
dlonal barracks at the Southern, Northwestern and
Western branches of the National Soldiers Homes -
provide for closing up the business of the Court of
Alabama Claims; to establish additional life-savng
stations; for the construction OF additional light
houses: extending the freedeivery system to towns
of 1000 inhabitants for the construction of light
house supply steamer the Atlantic and Gulf coasts;
Tor the sale of the Cherokee reservation in Arkans
to amend the statutes to require brewers to give
bond for three times their estimated monthly tax; for
| allowance for 4th of July claims reported by the
counting officers of the Treasury Department bill
for each Of the two sesons authorizing the transfer
| to the Louisiana State University; to amend
| an act for the muster and pay of certain
officers, SO that any person duly. commissioned,
whether the commission received not shall be
| considered to have been commissioned from date
named in the commissions referring to the Court OF
Claims the claims growing out of General Iohns tons
Utah expeditions TO aItho1izhthe deliver, - tle:,
owners of valuable boxes deposited in the Treasury
by the Secretary of War; for the issue of postal
IN sums less than 30; to validate the general laws OF
Dakota regarding the incorporation of insurance com
panies authorizing the Secretary of the Interior
the Otoe and Missouri Indian lands: to provide
school Of instruction for cavalry and light artillery
to provide for the inspection of tobacco, cigars
snuff and to repeal Section 31o1 Revised Statutes: tt
permit the free entry of goods for the exhibition
the United States Bottlers Protective Association: tc
effect Encouragement of grades of office in the Adju
tantgenerals Department. to provide for filing tht
Office of United States Treasurer in the absence o
Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer; to make Cape
Charles City, Mo-. port of entry to allow merchan
disc Liable 70 specific rates of duty be transported
in bond although the merchandise may not appear by
the invoice to be consigned to the port desired
to allow underwriters to be recognized a,
consignees of merchandise abandoned yes
sels; ~ to restrict ownership of land
In the Territories to American citizens; to amend The
act dividing Missouri into two judicial districts an6
to divide it into eastern and western divisions and
tablish terms Of therein; to prohibit govern
ment employees from hiring or contracting out th.
labor OF United States prisoners to amend the duti
able goods act to allow merchandise trans
ported IN bond on passenger trains in safes pouches
and trunks and IN parcels to provide for holdns
terms of court in Texarkana; amend the ac
! prohibiting the importation and immigration Of for
egners under labor contracts; for additional as
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming
providing for the location of branch soldiers home
west OF the Rocky mountains; for the relief of th
Jeannette sufferers; amendatory of the act dividns
Illinois into judicial districts. and providing for th
holding of terms of court at Peoria; relative to con
tested elections; for the employment of mail
in the postal servce to oan articles in the gov
ernment departments TO the Minnesota Industria
Exposition to regulate the jurisdiction of Unite,
States circuit courts; for the adjustment of lant
grants and the forfeiture of unearned lands: adj
cities. and to allow part of the reserve to b
kept in cities other than New York; for the relic
of settlers on the public lands in Kansas ant
Nebraska; to provide for bringing suits against tn
| government; for the erection of public buildings a
Los Angeles Cali Springfield, Mo-; Ell Paso, Tex
Santa Fe, n. NJ, and Jefferson Tex 60 increase III
limit of cost of public buildings at Peoria Ill., GA
veston Tex; Clarksburg. w. Va; Keokul Ia; Chat
tanooga, Tenn Detroit M;ch for the completion o
improvements of public buildings at Dallas, Tex
DesMoines la jackson, Tenn, and Hannibal. Mo
for the pu chase of additional ground for the bulin
at Fort Wayne, Ind; for the purchase of site for
federal building at San Francisco, Cal.
Forty House joint resolutions became laws
the principal ones being as follows:
For the settlement of the accounts of the Mobile
Ohio Railroad Company; directing the Commissions
Of Labor TO make Investigation to convict abo
authorizing the Secretary OF the Interior to use ce
tain unexpected balances for the relief OF the Norti
ern Cheyennes. of Wyoming: to authorize the Pres
dent to protect American fishing and trading vessel
and American fishermen in Cannadian waters Lib